Researchers said the findings show "elimination is epidemiologically feasible, and large areas of Africa are more amenable to control than appreciated previously," raising hope that the disease could be more precisely targeted.

While, epidemiologically, your positing of a well known figure injects too much bias to get a useful answer – it tends to confirm my own observations that race is almost inexplicably intertwined and becoming indistinguishable from culture/environment.

They were both pretty convincing showing how Rachel Carson's hypothesis that chemical exposure can cause DNA breaks that lead to breast cancer and other cancers has now been epidemiologically confirmed.